boomer4snow
Silver Member
Hello all, being a little on the new side to things hydraulic, I wonder if anybody can share some experience and theory with me. I have a 04 TC40DA and early this year I built a quick-tach root grapple for it. All went well and I powered it with the rear remote and 20+ feet of hose hanging zip tied all over the place. I work in medical contracting usually out of state for long periods so I figured that this zip tie/rear remote arrangement would get me started until I get home again to use it. My BIL managed to "step on its tail" and snagged a hose and bent up some of the front curl cylinders steel lines while using the grapple and I want to fix it correctly so it won't happen again (actually I am suprised it took this long to break).
Pineridge has a great pic section showing a electric hyd. selector setup that I would like to copy, but I would like to hear how it has held up for him.
Any ideas on how hard it would be to fab up some new steel lines to replace the bent ones on the FEL, and possible make some new ones for the grapple cylinders.
I used a single 2"x10"x1" cylinder, and the action is way to quick (1/2" hose)
and it doesnt really have a lot of "pinch" power. I am thinking 1/4" hose will slow it down for fine control, and maybe stepping up to a larger cylinder will give it more "pinch". I could also just add a 2nd cylinder but that would mean creating 2 new mounting points which I would prefer not to do.
any ideas/comments would be very helpful/welcome.. thanks
Pineridge has a great pic section showing a electric hyd. selector setup that I would like to copy, but I would like to hear how it has held up for him.
Any ideas on how hard it would be to fab up some new steel lines to replace the bent ones on the FEL, and possible make some new ones for the grapple cylinders.
I used a single 2"x10"x1" cylinder, and the action is way to quick (1/2" hose)
and it doesnt really have a lot of "pinch" power. I am thinking 1/4" hose will slow it down for fine control, and maybe stepping up to a larger cylinder will give it more "pinch". I could also just add a 2nd cylinder but that would mean creating 2 new mounting points which I would prefer not to do.
any ideas/comments would be very helpful/welcome.. thanks